I use cygwin on speech synthesis so I have some experience. I compile with gcc in cygwin but my application is console based so I do not need the kde development libraries or even XFree86 stuff. What is needed in scribus is a full binary scribus.exe ready to run in windows native; if that is too much to ask then at least a binary for cygwin. No compilation. Moreover since the competition is already of there, In Design and Quark , scribus had better be fully formed and mature. But it is! Those who still post 'Linux-is-not-ready-yet' are tooting their horns uselessly. For printing here is a kluge: if win32 print api is too much then associate each *.sla file with its *.ps file equivalent and print from gsview using ghost script. That has been suggested already; a few days ago. It is only a trick. Better to really print in Windows. Export to pdf and print using Acrobat Reader has been suggested too. Good Luck! I was about to junk my win98 se laptop: P-II, 233 MHz, 64 MB RAM! I keep it for its font collection!
Bart Alberti
